A Poet's Journey

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A Poet's Journey
A Poet's Journey
Wandered Far From the Beaten Path

Wandered Far From the Beaten Path

Flee me, signs of delusion

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Bob Metivier
Jun 14, 2022
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Wandered Far From the Beaten Path
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Syllabic Poem| The Culminating 30

Wanderer on dried desert mud — rolffimages- Adobe Stock


You 
May think
I
Have lost
My bearing
Fallen
So far off
The beaten path
Mindlessly
Wandered downhill 
Caught in the thicket
Of my own way
Stumbled through the day
Until I reached this place 
Where nothing else is
But endless sand and clay
The seething, sweltering heat
Has left me bli…

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